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Enabling Information: A report on improving access and raising standards in information services for disabled people and their carers in Scotland.

Part 4 Recommendations

1 The Secretary of State should promote the establishment of an advisory body to drive forward:

• the framing of national policy in this area;
• the development and monitoring of national standards;
• the functioning of the Scottish disability information service; and
• the convening of regular forums for the sharing of knowledge and experience between national providers, and between national and local providers; and to
• provide feedback to the Secretary of State about the provision of information to disabled people and their carers at national and local level.

2 This advisory body should be made up of disabled people and carers, particularly those who represent organisations of and for disabled people and their carers, as well as other people with appropriate expertise. Members should as far as possible represent the range of types of impairment, as well as rural and remote parts of Scotland, and ethnic minority groups. Members should be paid a daily allowance.

3 The Scottish Office should provide the necessary funding through the advisory body for a Scottish national disability information service whose functions would include the distribution of material created by other bodies, the creation of information products, advising on the applicability of UK information in Scotland, and providing advice and training to loc